Why doesn’t Daisy choose Gatsby?

[Anonymous]

I’ve been re-watching the Leo DiCaprio movie of Great Gatsby and realize Daisy’s an enigma. She seems to love Gatsby but choose to continue to stay with her philandering brute of a husband.

Why? Is it the material comfort? If so, Gatsby is rich too.

[Anonymous]

Money and their child - if you read the book.
Also it is Gatsby who is obsessed with Daisy, not the other way around.

[Anonymous]

In the scene where Daisy changes her mind, Gatsby is acting really unstable and irrational.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In the scene where Daisy changes her mind, Gatsby is acting really unstable and irrational.

Yes, but Tom is also known to have a temper and behaves poorly very frequently.

[Anonymous]

In the book I always understood it as Gatsby was obsessed with Daisy, and Daisy was one of those women who kind of made everyone around her feel like they were the loved one and the special one. I never got the impression Daisy was in love with Gatsby.

[Anonymous]

If Daisy left her DH, she would no longer be accepted by some of her family and other circles. She would be gossiped about. She would lose social standing. Even if everyone wanted to go to Gatsby's parties, does not mean those same people would not think less of his divorced society wife.

Jay OTOH has everything to gain. So Daisy would have had to really love him. She didn't. She was just having fun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In the scene where Daisy changes her mind, Gatsby is acting really unstable and irrational.

Yes, but Tom is also known to have a temper and behaves poorly very frequently.

Yeah but Tom's wealth and power isn't an illusion. He can both keep Daisy or destroy her. He absolutely can keep their child from her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In the scene where Daisy changes her mind, Gatsby is acting really unstable and irrational.

Yes, but Tom is also known to have a temper and behaves poorly very frequently.

Yeah but Tom's wealth and power isn't an illusion. He can both keep Daisy or destroy her. He absolutely can keep their child from her.

Interesting, would you say Daisy is happy in her marriage?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In the scene where Daisy changes her mind, Gatsby is acting really unstable and irrational.

Yes, but Tom is also known to have a temper and behaves poorly very frequently.

Yeah but Tom's wealth and power isn't an illusion. He can both keep Daisy or destroy her. He absolutely can keep their child from her.

Interesting, would you say Daisy is happy in her marriage?

Not necessarlily but it is what she expected and what she signed up for. Tom is like all the men in her world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In the scene where Daisy changes her mind, Gatsby is acting really unstable and irrational.

Yes, but Tom is also known to have a temper and behaves poorly very frequently.

Yeah but Tom's wealth and power isn't an illusion. He can both keep Daisy or destroy her. He absolutely can keep their child from her.

Interesting, would you say Daisy is happy in her marriage?

Oh of course not. That's why she says she hopes her daughter is a fool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In the scene where Daisy changes her mind, Gatsby is acting really unstable and irrational.

Yes, but Tom is also known to have a temper and behaves poorly very frequently.

Yeah but Tom's wealth and power isn't an illusion. He can both keep Daisy or destroy her. He absolutely can keep their child from her.

Gatsby was a mobster during the height of the mafia. He could have made Tom disappear pretty easily.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In the scene where Daisy changes her mind, Gatsby is acting really unstable and irrational.

Yes, but Tom is also known to have a temper and behaves poorly very frequently.

Yeah but Tom's wealth and power isn't an illusion. He can both keep Daisy or destroy her. He absolutely can keep their child from her.

Gatsby was a mobster during the height of the mafia. He could have made Tom disappear pretty easily.

Gatsby has no real power in the mob at all. That's the post, he's the fall guy and front for the people with actual power.

[Anonymous]

Because there’s no way society would have accepted Gatsby. And Daisy valued not just money, but her social standing.

[Anonymous]

I feel like I'm writing someone's 11th grade English essay for them right now lol

[Anonymous]

He’s new money..